Westerly 62.2

Contents:

Special Feature: The Melbourne-Seoul Intercultural Poetry Exchange

Dan Disney, Jessica L. Wilkinson and Cassandra Atherton ‘bending in all directions everywhere’: a juddering, glimpsing, eidólonging of poets.
Lisa Gorton Yeonhui
Bonny Cassidy Ghostin
Bonny Cassidy Shields
Bo-Seon Shim Mangwon
So-Yeon Kim Mangwon-dong
So-Yeon Kim 'Coffin Bay'
Dan Disney that winter, these protests
Dan Disney spring, Hannam-dong
Kent MacCarter Mujeongwiundong Mangwon-dong (North Korean blanket remix)
Yideum Kim Ugg Boots
Yideum Kim 'Face Made of Steel'
Jessica L. Wilkinson Reflected

Special Feature: Contemporary Japanese Poets in Translation

Misumi Mizuki The Gift
Ishikawa Itsuko Soles–
Kawaguchi Harumi Welcome Home
Kono Satoko Head Ache
Misaki Takako Into White Darkness

Special Feature: The China–Australia Writing Centre

Lucy Dougan Introduction
Huang Yuanshen A Passion for Australian Literary Studies
Zhou Xiaojin A Critical Survey of Chinese Journal Articles on Australian Literature in China 1979-2016.
Translated by Iris FAN Xing A Selection of Four Poems by Chinese Women
Josephine Wilson Umbilicus
Fan Dai Saturday Evenings
Elizabeth Tan A Life, Passing

Poetry

Christina Lloyd Dimples Whiskey
Mark Floyer Post Tropical
Sampurna Chattarji The Dictation Test: I
Sampurna Chattarji 2 sunken islands. 3 kinds of rock.
Reneé-Pettitt Schipp Pinggir
Reneé-Pettitt Schipp Weaving Ketupat on Pulu Cheplok
Ross Jackson Oceania as I imagined it
Sanna Peden keunggulan
Timmah Ball Peeling
Ouyang Yu 8.31am, 4.13pm
Christopher Kelen how the hundred schools contend
Shane McCauley Gion Shimu in Snow (Hiroshige)
Mike Heald On the Theft of My New TV, or Watching with Ryokan
Elaine Barker The Finger
Shane Strange River
Dennis Haskell Days without end
Mona Zahra Attamimi Scent
Liang Yujing Call Me Eugene
Rose van Son Remembering Singapore
Shey Marque Alligatorwood

Fiction

Agustinus Wibowo The Sea
Mohammed Massoud Morsi The Home of Lost Angels
Mark Fabiano Homecoming in the Garden of the Full Moon
Katinka Smit The Blue
Roanna Gonsalves George Jarvis, Black Hindoo Servant, Port Jackson, 1809 (Preparatory Study)
Parvati Angana God Willing
Bethany Rawson Goji no Chaimu (The Five O'Clock Bell)
Jen Banyard Footprints
Ann Dombroski Siem Reap
Belinda Hermawan Xié xie

Creative Non-Fiction

Ella Jeffery A Mirror in the Dark
Caitlin Prince Sitting on My Grandmother's Skirts
Isabelle Li The Aristotelian Questions
Rachel Watts Insha'Allah
Gay Lynch If You Hear a Baby Crying

Essays

John Mateer Invisible Genres, or on the Virtual and the Actual
Siti Sarah Ridhuan Bahasa Indonesia/Melayu & Yolngu-Matha‚ recognising familiar words in unfamiliar contexts
Fiona Morrison 'A transfiguration of my local patriotism'
Dennis Haskell Fay Zwicky and 'the ridde of the self's existence'
Yingjie M. Cheng Modernism En Route

Reviews

Jen Bowden A Review of 'The Permanent Resident' by Roanna Gonsalves
Rebecca Harris A Review of 'Billy Sing' by Ouyang Yu